The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-10-06

family in a special train, bold sc heme
| was concocted by a party OF outlaws to
steal Mr.. Shepard's youngest child and de-
mand large sum OF money for its ran.
som. The story, as told by gentleman
/ in this city who received it from
the conductor OF Mr.. Shepard's train.
that the outlaws were organized and ready
to waviay the train at lonely spot and
abduct the child. The plot by some means
leaked out and came to the knowledge OF
an officer of the Third United States cav.
airy, who told it to Mr.. Shepard. AS a
consequence detachment OF the troops
accompanied the Shepard party until they
left the confines OF danger and emerged in
to civilization.
|. D. Forrest, the deserted Billings,
Mont, hotelkeeper, RECEIVERS his wife at
Philadelphia.
The Matt Clark transportation com
pany and Matt Clark, its general manager,
assign at Saltwater. Mimi, with $50, 900
liabilities and $50, 900 assets.
One more case Of cholera developed
among the Italians in quarantine who re-.
Gently arrived from Naples.
The president has issued proclamat ton
suspending tonnage duties OH vessels and
produce OF Spain.
The secretary ofthe interior has reversed
the decision OF the commissioner of the
general land office, cancsling G. r. Coles
entry OF the southeast quarter, section "a.
township 1873, range So, Fargo district.
At Ronceverte, Greenbrier County. W.
Va, Mrs. Louise Eldridge, wife OF promi
nent citizen, was mysteriously assassinated
at her own door by some unknown person,
who fired a bullet from Winchester rife
through her heart.
At New York, the jury in the case OF Dan
Lyons, who was tried for killing Joseph
Quinn, the athlete, returned a verdict of
guilty OF murder in the first degree.
Riddleberger writes from Virginia that
he has no purpose except to act with the
Republicans in the senate next winter.
The president appointed Whitaker
Grant OF Iowa to be attorney Of the Unit
ed States for the District of Alaska. and
Charles NJ. Force OF Kentucky to be re-
ceiver OF public moneys at Lewiston,
Idaho.
The Minnesota Railroad commission
has issued it's first sharp and definite or
der for a specific reduction OF freight rates.
1t is made upon the complaint of citizens
and commercial bodies represen ting towns
on the Iowa and Minnesota line of the Mil
waukee road, and orders a reduction OF
rates of freight between st. Paul and those
cities ranging from to 25 per cent.
A woman who gives the name of Mrs.
Jennie Thorley was arrested in the Nation
al Exchange bank at Lynchburg, Va, while
attempting to have check on the New
Orleans National bank for 81 900 cashed.
The check is either raised or a forgery.
Howard Douglass OF Cincinnati, supreme
chancellor OF the Knights OF Pythias, ap-
pointed Hon. r. L. c. White OF Lebanon,
Tenn, supreme keeper OF record and seal
OF the Knights of Pythias to fill the va
cancy occasioned by the decease OF Hon.
R. E. Cowan OF st. Louis.
At Philadelphia, the Enterprise Brewing
company has made an assignment. Liza
bilities, S2O3, 900; assets, s35o,oo0.
Judge Colt of the United States district
court at Boston, has dismissed the suit to
annul the Bell telephone patent on de.
murrer, holding that congress has not Civ
en- the government by specific legislation
power to bring suit to annul patent.
This leaves the main question ofthe validi.
ty OF the Boil telephone patent unadiudi-
Gated. It will probably come up again I'm.
der some suit for infringement.
Chaplain Macomber, late OF Fl. Custer,
now of Fit. Sherman, Idaho, is delighted
with his new field of labor. He was kindly
received by the people of the garrison, and
has entered upon his work with zeal and
SreaU encouragement.
Cardinal Gibbon, accompanied by Rev.
DR.. P. L. Chapele OF Washington, left
Baltimore on the Pennsylvania railroad
for the West. Portland, Or. is the cardi-
nails objective point. where he will confer
the pallium upon Archbishop Gross, but
he will stop en- route at Chicago, Mil
waukee and St. Paul.
The government expelled from Rouma-
MIA a Bulgarian agitator who was making
libelous attack upon Prince Ferdinand.
1t is reported that NJ. Grevy will shortly
resign the presidency OF France.
A telegram from Santa Fe to the associ.
ated press says: The reported Apache out
break in Arizona is not confirmed at mil
itary headquarters here. On the contrary
everything is reported quite upon the
Southwestern Indian reservation.
The treasury department has received
from United States Marshal Banks OF Mas
sachusetts vouchers showing the expendi-
ture OF over $33. 900 by his office. 1t was
the marshafs delay in sending in his &C.
counts that made the treasury officials
somewhat apprehensive, and as the
amount for which he may now be liable is
brought within the limit OF his bonds by
the vouchers sent in, the department hon
ored his draft for about 81, 100.
Madrid Dispatch: Riots have been
caused on the island of Ponapi, one of the
Caroline group, in consequences OF expul-
sion of the Protestant missionaries. One
man has already been killed. Reinforce
ments have been sent from Manila to re-
store order. Later advices say that the
Spanish governor of Ponape has been kill.
ed and that many wounded have taken
refuge on a Spanish pontoon. The insur-
gents are masters OF the island. Two war
ships have been sent to the scene.
The folling pensions have been granted:
Wisconsin: j. NJ. Lewis, Muscoda; H. Nc
Donald, Star Prairie; N. o. Fields, Chetek;
c. NJ. Osman, Barron. Minnesota: H. D.
Nancarrow, Albert Lea; F. Monk, Eitsen;
NJ. Sankin, Brownton. Dakota L. s. Red
field, Canton.
! The war department has been aware for
some time OF threatened trouble at the San
Carlos Indian reservation in Arizona.
The situation there bears resem.
blance to that which existed at
the Ute reservation before Colorow's de-
parture last summer, and in both cases
the trouble appears to have arisen from
attempts by the state and territorial Off.
Gals to enforce civil processes on the In
dams.
Fourth-class postmasters appointed:
Dakota: Rohey, J. 8. Roupe. Iowa:
Pleasant Valley, B. w. Brown. Wisconsin:
Beaver. w. NJ. Bishop; Elmdale, w. T.
Harwood.
The president has granted q pardon in
the case OF William Brooks, James Fitz-
gerald, Thomas jackson, William Hender.
son, John Palmer Reuben Goius and
George Horner, who were convicted in the
United States court for the Western dis.
trict OF Arkansas last August OF man.
slaughter, and whose sentence was sus-
pended. The pardon is granted on the
ground that the convicts had reason to
apprehend bodily harm from the men who
they killed.
Proposals were opened at the navy de-
partment for furnishing twenty two sets OF
steel forgings for six.inch breech- loading
rifle guns, oil-treated and annealed, aggre-
eating about 1875 tons, and OF domestic
manufacture. The Midvale Iron company
Of Philadelphia was the only bidder. It's
proposal was for supplying the forgings,